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Does Information Overload Cause Decision Fatigue? What Replication Tells Us
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The standard explanation for information fatigue is cognitive overload. The idea is that your brain has a limited processing capacity and that excessive info… Read more…
Does Generative AI Make Your Thinking Invisible to You?
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The worry about generative AI is that it makes you dumber. That by outsourcing thinking to a machine, your cognitive capacity declines. Read more…
Why Outsourcing Judgment to AI May Cost You Practice
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Sedentary behavior is a useful comparison for what could happen to our thinking skills when we hand judgment calls to AI. This post is an analogy about practice and skill, not a claim about clinical cognitive decline. Read more…
Self-Reported Cognitive Disability Rose 40% in a Decade: What It Means (and Doesn’t)
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In a large US survey, the share of adults reporting serious trouble concentrating, remembering or making decisions rose from 5.3% to 7.4% between 2013 and 2023. Here is what that number is, and what it is not. Read more…
Why Depth May Matter More as Automation Spreads
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Every productivity tool on the market promises speed. Faster writing. Faster research. Faster decision-making. The assumption is that speed is the bottleneck… Read more…
